"The most powerful agent of change in therapy is the relationship between the therapist and client."
- Carl Rogers
Individual therapy
My primary goals are that you feel safe and comfortable in our therapeutic relationship, and that you learn to build a life that feels great to you. Therapy can be a transformative. It goes beyond symptom relief and cultivates personal growth, resilience, and a deeper sense of purpose and vitality.
Our therapy relationship also serves as a learning ground for understanding how you relate to others outside of therapy. This awareness leads to positive changes in your other significant relationships.
Some of the “survival tendencies” we developed in childhood can impede the lives we want to build for ourselves as adults. In therapy, we explore theses tendencies that no longer serve us, and develop new, adaptive ways of coping with life’s challenges.
Group therapy
I co-lead long-term interpersonal process group for adults of various identities and backgrounds presenting with a range of issues.
Participation in group offers a powerful way to deepen intimacy with others, gain greater self-awareness, explore and transform painful or unsatisfying relational patterns, and cultivate authenticity in relationships.
Group psychotherapy is a highly effective therapeutic modality for navigating personal relationships. Members learn to explore and understand their own behavior and reactions, as well as how they impact and are influenced by others in the group.
Couples therapy
Couples therapy can help partners better understand one another and restore hope, trust and connection to the relationship. Couples work involves each partner recognizing how their own behavior maintains unwanted patterns in the relationship. Through the process, each partner learns how to disengage from those patterns and attune to the other person.
I typically see couples with a co-therapist, a model where we work together to observe interactions, provide feedback, and offer interventions. My co-therapist will work with one member of the couple individually, and I will work with the other. This model allows us to address breakdowns in communication and intimacy, in tandem with each individual exploring their role in the disharmony in the relationship.
Typical issues include communication, life transitions, parenting, financial conflict, grief and loss or infidelity.